The Telegraph

Most people, if asked which great architect they associate with Glasgow, would answer Charles Rennie Mackintosh. But there is another Glaswegian genius, Alexander "Greek" Thomson, whose original buildings - ranging from suburban villas and urban terraces to warehouses, department stores and churches - might have made him the cultural icon that Mackintosh now is, had he not been overshadowed by the younger man. As it is, many of Thomson's great Glasgow buildings have either been demolished, or stand derelict and at risk. Ironically, Mackintosh was the second winner of the Alexander Thomson Travelling Scholarship, instituted after Thomson's death.